Rooted in Connection and Care
Our Providers
ITS staff are trained to provide a broad range of therapies for individuals, couples, and families of all ages and backgrounds.
Members of our staff have specialized areas and programs which are described in their individual biographies.
Our staff can help address concerns including depression, anxiety, attachment, grief, loss, gender and sexual identity, ADD/ADHD, divorce, trauma, PTSD, perinatal mental health concerns, and more.
In order to provide the best care, our providers collaborate with pediatricians, psychiatrists, psychologists, teachers, occupational therapists, and other referring professionals.
Are you interested in joining our team? ITS is hiring! See HERE for more information.
LMFT, CMHS, CMHIMP, Co-Owner of ITSNW
Jeanne Purdum
Jeanne is one of the co-founders of ITS and has been providing therapy to children and families since 1997 in the Pacific Northwest. Her early career focused almost exclusively on providing Play Therapy, using child development and attachment frameworks. She uses multiple modalities and formats for working with children of all ages and their families. She also enjoys working with individuals diagnosed with ADD/ADHD. She has developed an interest in helping clients who wish to optimise their nutritional needs, brain health and mental health, by focusing on the psychology of eating and overall systemic health. Across her years of practice, grief counseling has been a mainstay. Grief is an essential part of the human experience, and she is equipped to help client’s process a wide variety of grief and loss experiences.
Certifications: AAMFT Approved Clinical Supervisor, Certified Eating Psychology Coach, Child Mental Health Specialist, Certified Brain Health Coach, Certified Mental Health Integrative Medicine Professional (CMHIMP), Member of Association for Play Therapy, PCIT Coach and Mentor
MS – Marriage and Family Therapy – Seattle Pacific University
BA – Psychology – The Pennsylvania State University
LMFT, CMHS, Co-Owner of ITSNW
Michael Nielsen
Mike frequently works with children of all ages from a variety of backgrounds. He has diverse experience working with at-risk youth, children with school related concerns, depression, anxiety, ADHD, blended families, foster children, adoption, anger management, and other disruptive behavioral issues.
Certifications: AAMFT Approved Clinical Supervisor, Child Mental Health Specialist
MS – Marriage and Family Therapy – Seattle Pacific University
BS – Human Development, minor in Psychology – Brigham Young University
LMFT, CMHS, Co-Owner of ITSNW
Jenelle Larson
Jenelle has experience counseling couples, teens, young adults, and families with a variety of concerns, including anxiety, depression, co-parenting, self-esteem, self-harm, school concerns, and natural life transitions. She enjoys working with couples to help them build connection and communication skills in addition to support and forgiveness to work through challenges. She also enjoys helping teens navigate transitions associated with movement into adulthood.
Jenelle is a systemic therapist that uses a client-centered approach to help people identify their own strengths, work through underlying emotions, as well as build and strengthen attachments. She believes counseling is an avenue that helps her clients reconnect with their inner self. Additionally, she believes that every person possesses the strength and skill to lead a successful journey through life.
Certifications: AAMFT Approved Clinical Supervisor, Child Mental Health Specialist, TF-CBT, EFT trained, Gottman trained
MA – Marriage and Family Therapy – Pacific Lutheran University
BA – Psychology – University of California, Davis
LMFT, CMHS, CMHIMP, Maternal Mental Health Specialist
– Offering virtual (telehealth) appointments only –
Sarah Atchison
Sarah is the director and founder of the Bloom Program for Maternal and Infant Wellness. Sarah specializes in Maternal and Infant Wellness. She has a background in working with a wide variety of perinatal and postpartum concerns, children, adolescents, couples, and families of all ages and from a variety of socioeconomic and cultural backgrounds. She has worked extensively with pregnant and postpartum women, young families, and high-risk children. Sarah has a special interest in supporting those who are planning for a baby, have been trying for a while, are adjusting to new parenthood, coping with a loss or utilizing reproductive assistance.
Certifications: Maternal Mental Health Specialist, Infant Mental Health, Perinatal Loss, Infertility, Child Mental Health Specialist, Certified Mental Health Integrative Medicine Professional (CMHIMP), Gottman’s Bringing Baby Home, BLOOM
MA – Marriage and Family Therapy- Pacific Lutheran University
BA – Psychology – University of Puget Sound
LMFT, CMHS – Offering virtual (telehealth) appointments only –
Tamra Davis
Tamra works with individuals and families of all ages and from all backgrounds. She frequently works with concerns such as anxiety, depression, trauma, at-risk youth, school concerns, ADHD, anger management, and other disruptive behavioral issues.
Tamra brings diverse experience from her work at Auburn Youth Resources and Catholic Community Services, including running the crisis line.
Certifications: DBT, AAMFT approved supervisor, WA approved supervisor,
Child Mental Health Specialist, CBT+
MS – Marriage and Family Therapy – Seattle Pacific University
BA – Psychology – Carroll College
PhD, LMHC, CMHIMP, CCTP, CCTHP
– Offering virtual (telehealth) appointments only –
Elizabeth Bergstrom
Elizabeth works with individuals and couples of all ages with concerns related to anxiety, depression, trauma, grief and loss, self-esteem, self-concept and identity, and personal exploration.
Elizabeth utilizes a psychodynamic approach, operating from a systems theory background and relational lens. She assesses presenting issues holistically and maintains a strength-based practice. She enjoys creating warm, collaborative spaces that encourage meaningful exploration, and productive problem solving. She has extensive experience working with clients from diverse backgrounds.
Certifications: Washington State Approved Supervisor, Gottman Level 2 Trained, Certified Mental Health Integrative Medicine Professional (CMHIMP), Certified Clinical Trauma Professional (CCTP), Certified Clinical Telemental Health Provider (CCTHP)
PhD – Depth Psychology, emphasis in Psychotherapy – Pacifica Graduate Institute
MA – Counseling Psychology – Pacifica Graduate Institute
BA – Psychology – University of Washington
LMFT
Shannon Armitage
Shannon can help anyone with a willingness to try new things, revise an old story, and think creatively (and sometimes playfully) about serious problems. She specializes in working with perinatal mood disorders, adolescent/child family therapy, transitions into adulthood and parenthood, mood and anxiety disorders, LGBTQ+ families, grief and loss, and PTSD.
Shannon brings a wide variety of experience to ITSNW, including work in community mental health, early elementary special education, and research on the role of early childhood education on outcomes for children ages birth-5. Additionally, she draws on lessons she learns from her family, especially regarding the importance of eating and sleeping well and remembering to laugh and have fun.
Certifications: BLOOM, DBT, Pride Program, FFT
MA – Marriage and Family Therapy – Pacific Lutheran University
BA – Sociology – University of Michigan
BA – Creative Writing – University of Michigan
LMFT, PMH-C
Kathy Augsback
Kathy is a marriage and family therapist and typically works with older teens, women and their families. She has experience helping her clients through life transitions, boundary making, and navigating through family conflict. She also has additional training in supporting women and their families through the perinatal period.
Kathy has a special interest in and is dedicated to fostering well-being within the Asian American and Pacific Islander community. Drawing from her own heritage, she is committed to breaking the stigma surrounding mental healthcare. With a passion for dismantling toxic cycles, she brings understanding and support to empower individuals and families in their mental health journey.
Certifications: Certified Perinatal Mental Health Professional, BLOOM, Pride Program,
CBT, TF-CBT
MA – Marriage and Family Therapy – Pacific Lutheran University
BA – Sociology – University of Washington
LMFT
Jessica “Jess” Mannari
Jess has experience in community mental health and private practice working with diverse backgrounds and concerns. She can help couples, families, teens, and young adults who are struggling with depression, anxiety, trauma, sexual trauma, grief, and life transitions. She enjoys working with the LGBTQ+ community.
Jess takes a collaborative approach with her clients, working as a team to manage and overcome challenges.
Certifications: BLOOM, Pride Program, CBT, TF-CBT
MA – Marriage and Family Therapy – Pacific Lutheran University
BS – Psychology – Seattle Pacific University
LMHC, CMHS – Offering virtual (telehealth) appointments only –
Andrea Rosenkranz
Andrea has experience working with teens, young adults, and adults from diverse socioeconomic and cultural backgrounds with diverse concerns. She enjoys helping her clients overcome anxiety, depression, complex trauma, anger, and grief as well as build self-esteem, manage life transitions, establish self-concept and identity, and challenge/change unhelpful beliefs and behaviors. She brings experience in Community Mental Health and her work with military families to her work at ITS.
Andrea takes a client-centered approach and uses a solution-focused perspective to help her clients identify strengths, break down barriers, and identify and process underlying emotions.
Certifications: Child Mental Health Specialist, WA Approved Supervisor, CBT+
Psy.D – Doctorate of Counseling Psychology,
emphasis in Resilience Training and C-PTSD – California Southern University
MA – Psychology – Argosy University
BA – Psychology – University of Washington
LMFT – Offering virtual (telehealth) appointments only –
Kirstin Han
Kirstin has experience working with individuals of all ages, backgrounds, and life stories, and can help adults, couples, and teens. She holds special interest in serving LGBTQIA+ folx by creating a safe space to process and heal trauma, as well as helping immigrant communities in addressing cross-cultural dynamics and communication. She particularly enjoys working with individuals who are seeking support, guidance, and/or positive life changes through self-empowerment and confidence building, as well as those seeking support throughout the perinatal period. Kirstin takes a bespoke approach to therapy by creating individualized experiences of healing, including a holistic focus on mind, body, and soul in addition to mental wellness.
Certifications: BLOOM, Pride Program, TF-CBT
MA – Marriage and Family Therapy – Pacific Lutheran University
BS – Psychology – Seattle University
LMFT
Holly Harden
Holly brings a diverse background and extensive experience to her work with couples, families, children, teens, and adults. She holds a special interest in working with child development, family relationships, parenting, anxiety, depression, religion/spirituality, and attachment. She has unique perspectives gained from her work as a Court Appointed Special Advocate, social worker, Family Resources Coordinator, and Family Advocate. She takes a systemic approach and enjoys working with multiple people in the room, whether that is a child with their parents, couples, or a large family system.
Certifications: BLOOM, TF-CBT, AAMFT approved supervisor
MA – Marriage and Family Therapy – Pacific Lutheran University
BA – Social Welfare – University of Washington
LMFT
Jaime Bliss
Jaime uses a client-centered, systemic approach with individuals, couples, and families. She brings 15 years of experience in community mental health to her work at ITS. She has had additional training in alcohol/substance abuse, and is especially interested in working with the LGBTQIA+ community and concerns including trauma, anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Jaime helps her clients evaluate problem behavior within the context of the family and social environment to allow for better solutions, healing, and support to sustain long-term wellness.
Certifications: CBT+
MA – Marriage and Family Therapy – Pacific Lutheran University
BA – Psychology – University of Washington
LMFT
Haley Duffrin
Haley provides therapy for adults and teens seeking support with depression, anxiety, grief, and life transitions. She specializes in working with highly sensitive people, women navigating mood and anxiety concerns, men who tend to approach challenges analytically, and individuals who are childfree by choice and value a nonjudgmental space. Her approach is grounded in postmodern, narrative practices that honor clients as the authors of their own stories. She also integrates somatic therapy methods to help clients reconnect with their bodies, regulate emotions, and move beyond patterns of overthinking. This combination allows clients to address both the meaning-making and the felt experience of their challenges.
Clients often come to Haley when they feel weighed down by self-criticism, caught in cycles of overanalyzing, or disconnected from their authentic sense of self. Haley works with her clients to create new perspectives, develop embodied coping tools, and cultivate greater resilience, clarity, and well-being.
MA – Marriage and Family Therapy – Pacific Lutheran University
BA – Psychology – University of Washington
LMFT
Kat VanTassel
Kat enjoys working with adolescents, couples, and individual adults, to help address concerns including anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, trauma, workplace stress, identity development, and grief/loss. She enjoys working with couples to help repair conflicts, rebuild trust and intimacy, and increase communication skills. She approaches therapy with a warm and collaborative manner and draws from an emotionally focused (EFT) approach.
Certifications: EFT Externship Trained, Completed Level 2 Training in Gottman Method Couples Therapy, BLOOM, Pride Program
MA – Marriage and Family Therapy – Pacific Lutheran University
BA – Sociology and Anthropology – University of Puget Sound
LMFT
Trinity Songha
Trinity works with individuals, couples and families from all ages, and across all different cultural backgrounds and unique life experiences through an integrative approach. She helps her clients process difficult life experiences and heal from their traumas, and to help them gain a deeper understanding of themselves, how their past shaped them, the way that it has informed their perceptions, how it impacts their emotional world, their physiological responses and symptoms, their relational patterns, and their choices and behaviors. Furthermore, she helps her clients process their traumas not only on a cognitive level, but also on a deeper emotional and somatic/nervous system level. Through this process, her clients are able to come out on the other side being more freed up from their limiting beliefs and patterns, getting to liberate parts of themselves that may have been locked away in shame, and to let go of survival defenses that became barriers to the life and relationships they desire. Trinity believes that on the other side of our traumas and the survival strategies that confined us, we will find our strengths, resilience, enhanced sense of self-worth, a sense of purpose, and our core values; the things that brings us fulfillment and that which makes us come alive. In addition to trauma healing, Trinity also provides tools to help her clients integrate their newfound awareness and skills into their current life and relationships. This is the stage in therapy that Trinity is most excited about because she gets to help her clients expand into their full potential, ultimately helping them create a life that feels the most fulfilling and meaningful to her clients. As a trauma informed therapist, she is intentional about creating a safe and supportive space that is needed for her clients to do the healing work, as she believes that the sense of safety, trust and therapeutic relationship between the therapist and client is foundational to the healing process.
Certifications: BLOOM, EMDR
MA – Marriage and Family Therapy – Pacific Lutheran University
BA – Interdisciplinary Program, emphasis on Psychology – The Evergreen State College
LMFT
Kailee “Kay” Nuttall
Kailee’s passion includes working with all ages and backgrounds. She holds a special interest in anxiety, depression, attachment, life transitions, and trauma. Kailee utilizes a mostly systemic Bowenian approach to working with clients. She also incorporates aspects of cognitive-behavioral and solution-focused techniques. She looks forward to teaching her clients mindfulness techniques in an effort help promote holistic healing. Kailee is open to seeing all clients, with particular interest in working with couples and teenagers.
Certifications: BLOOM
MA – Marriage and Family Therapy – Seattle University
BA – Psychology – Pacific Lutheran University
LMFT, CAS, ASDCS, CMNCS
Kristina Betz
Kristina uses a collaborative, neurodiversity-affirming approach grounded in narrative, solution-focused, experiential, person-centered, and Gottman-informed therapy. She works primarily with adults, couples, and families, including clients in monogamous, open, polyamorous, and other relationship structures. Kristina has a particular interest in autism and neurodivergence, including masking and late identification, and provides neurodiversity-affirming autism assessments. She also enjoys working with clients around sexuality, sexual identity, intimacy, trauma, communication and connection, grief, affairs, and life transitions. Her goal is to help clients better understand themselves and their relationships while creating lives that feel authentic and meaningful. Through working collaboratively with her clients, she strives to foster an empathetic and non-judgmental atmosphere that promotes client wellbeing.
Certifications: Autism Spectrum Disorder Clinical Specialist (ASDCS), Certified Autism Specialist, Certified Mental Health & Nutrition Clinical Specialist (CMNCS), Gottman Affairs and Trauma Trained, Gottman Couples Level 3 Trained, and Gottman Addiction Trained, BLOOM
MA – Couples and Family Therapy – Seattle University
BS – Psychology – Seattle University
LMFT
Hayley Farkas
Hayley is interested in working with individuals, couples and families, especially those going through major life transitions. She uses a systemic perspective with elements of Emotionally-Focused and Solution-Focused Therapy to help her clients achieve their goals. She brings her work as a paraeducator in the Title I reading program to her interactions with clients.
Certifications: BLOOM
MA – Marriage and Family Therapy – Pacific Lutheran University
BA – Communication – Washington State University
LMFT
Karina Kemmerer
Karina works collaboratively with individuals, couples, and teens using a systemic, strength-based, and solution-focused approach. She incorporates play therapy, art therapy, and psychodrama to help her patients express themselves. She enjoys helping the LGBTQ+ community and addressing concerns including trauma, low self-esteem, depression, anxiety, and life transitions. Karina’s experiences have provided her a unique perspective which allows her to work well with military families and blended families. She emphasizes creating a safe, non-judgmental space to empower her clients.
MA – Counseling Psychology – St. Martin’s University
BS – Psychology – Eastern Oregon University
LMFT
Claire Kilbourne
As a systemic therapist, Claire believes that people are shaped by their experiences and the people they’ve encountered along the way. She works from a place of non-judgement and celebrates body positivity, 2SLGBTQ+, and neurodiversity. She tends to use interventions from various theories, and will do her best to shape sessions so that they best fit her clients and their needs. Theories she currently utilizes include solution focused, person centered, and narrative. She prefers to work along with her client to help find the best path forward, giving her clients full control of their time in session. She looks forward to holding space for her clients as they become unstuck from patterns that no longer serve them.
Certifications: Gottman Couples Level 1 Trained, AASECT Certification in Sex Therapy
MA – Marriage and Family Therapy – Seattle University
BA – Psychology – University of Washington, Tacoma
LMHC
McKinsey McMahon
McKinsey is a Clinical Mental Health Counselor who works with individuals, couples, and families facing a range of challenges, including depression, anxiety, and relational issues. She draws from various therapeutic approaches, including Solution-Focused Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Psychodynamic Therapy, and Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), tailoring her methods to best meet each of her client’s unique needs. McKinsey aims to provide a supportive, collaborative environment where clients can explore their concerns, build on their strengths, and work toward lasting change.
MEd – Counseling – University of Puget Sound
BA – Psychology – University of Washington
LMFT
Mekenzie Harle
Mekenzie works with individuals, children and families from all backgrounds, with a special interest in working with diverse communities. She uses a Narrative Family Therapy approach that looks to identify and deconstruct the stories we tell. She can help her clients with concerns including life transitions, self-identity, self-esteem, stress, depression, anxiety, and more. She can support children and their parents by creating a collaborative and playful environment that supports the families needs. She is passionate about empowering her clients and helping them create the narrative they want. Mekenzie aims to build a space with clients that helps them to achieve their goals through a compassionate and curious lens.
MA – Couples and Family Therapy – Seattle University
BS – Psychology – Seattle University
LMFT
Kaitlyn Kelley
Kaitlyn’s client-centered approach to therapy incorporates a systemic point of view, recognizing that individuals are part of multiple systems including family, community, and culture, and that these systems can have a profound impact on a person’s well-being. She aims to use her previous experience to provide individuals, couples, and family with a unique approach that is tailored to fit their needs and preferences.
MA – Marriage and Family Therapy – Pacific Lutheran University
BS – Industrial and Organizational Psychology – California State University, East Bay
LMFTA – Currently On Leave –
Jami Helland
Jami enjoys helping individuals and couples of all ages. She is especially passionate about helping children and adolescents with ADHD as well as navigating their futures. She brings her experiences with her family to her work with clients to help them address their concerns with compassion and creativity.
MA – Marriage and Family Therapy – Pacific Lutheran University
BA – Psychology – University of Washington, Tacoma
LMFTA
Belinda Peterson
Belinda utilizes emotion-focused and solution-focused lenses with elements of narrative therapy. She emphasizes the importance of relationships with the self and others and believes that healing ourselves and our intimate relationships can pave the way to living the most fulfilled lives and contributing the greatest good to our communities and the world around us. Belinda aims to tailor therapy to support each client in their own unique needs while creating an environment where clients feel supported, respected, safe, and empowered.
MA – Marriage and Family Therapy – Pacific Lutheran University
BA – Psychology – University of Washington
LMFTA
Grace Cannon
As a therapist, Grace integrates multiple modalities curated towards each client’s needs and emphasizes a person-centered and systemic strength-based approach, aiming to work through a lens of collaboration and curiosity with her clients. Some of the modalities she has experience in include Narrative Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), Gottman Couples Therapy, and Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT). Grace has helped individuals, couples, and families of various ages and backgrounds work through a variety of concerns including anxiety, depression, neurodivergence, women’s issues, communication issues, setting boundaries, trauma, PTSD, grief, low self-esteem, identity, mood disorders, and anxiety disorders. She enjoys utilizing creative methods and creating a safe, nonjudgmental space to help clients build resilience and feel empowered as they work to accomplish their goals in therapy.
Certifications: BLOOM
MS – Marriage and Family Therapy – Seattle Pacific University
BA – Psychology – University of Washington.
LMFTA
Crystal Sosa
Crystal approaches sessions from a Systems-trained, humanistic, holistic, experiential, and trauma-informed lens. Her approach is collaborative with the intention of creating a safe environment where her clients can be vulnerable and seen. Crystal works with clients struggling with a variety of concerns, including trauma, grief, depression and anxiety, addiction, neurodivergence, and folks simply wanting to improve themselves and live with greater purpose and meaning. She aims to explore pathways to healing and growth that resonate with the client, drawing on their strengths and hopes.
MA – Marriage and Family Therapy – Pacific Lutheran University
BA – Psychology – Portland State University
LMFTA
Yvette Bea
As a systemic couples and family therapist, Yvette’s therapeutic orientation is rooted in narrative, solution-focused, and experiential therapy. She is committed to a client-centered and collaborative approach, meeting people where they are in their unique journeys. Yvette aims to facilitate a safe, accepting, comfortable, and nonjudgmental space for clients where resources can be accessed, explored, and harnessed to foster healing, growth, and deeper connections with themselves and within their relationships. Her interests include working with adults, teens, and children.
MA – Couples and Family Therapy – Seattle University
BS – Psychobiology – Santa Clara University
BS – Public Health Science – Santa Clara University
LMFTA
Anastasha Moreno
Stasha utilizes a holistic, person-centered, and trauma-informed systemic approach to therapy. She strives to treat everyone with respect and to co-create an environment where trust can thrive, and clients feel safe to express their unique self. She has an empathetic and compassionate nature, and aims to work from a place of curiosity and non-judgment. Stasha hopes to help her clients on their growth and healing journey as they become more connected with their mind and body.
MA – Marriage and Family Therapy – Pacific Lutheran University
BA – Languages and Literature – Bard College
LMFTA
Lexy Hansen
Using a systemic, client-centered, and strengths-based approach, Lexy’s goal in therapy is to work collaboratively with her clients to create a non-judgmental space where they can uncover their unique path to insight, resilience, and agency. Her areas of interest include life transitions, complex and childhood trauma, grief, chronic stress, and anxiety. Lexy enjoys working with couples, families, teens, and young adults.
MA – Marriage and Family Therapy – Pacific Lutheran University
BA – Psychology – University of Washington
LMHCA
Michaela Jones
Michaela utilizes an individualistic approach in therapy and allows her client to lead the space while helping to guide them. She likes to incorporate person-centered, Adlerian, and Bowenian theories if they align with the client’s needs. Michaela strives to create a safe and welcoming environment for her clients to feel comfortable expressing themselves and allowing them to grow. She has enjoyed working with children and teens for almost ten years and looks forward to expanding her work to young adults, elderly adults, and families.
MA – Clinical Mental Health Counseling – City University of Seattle
BA – Criminal Justice – American International College
LMFTA
Sara Hale
In therapy, Sara utilizes a holistic, systemic and person-centered approach to best support, empower, and guide her clients to find the answers that they may already hold within themselves. Pulling from a variety of modalities like somatic, Narrative Therapy, and Emotion Focused Therapy, Sara aims to collaborate with her clients in order to create a space that feels safe for them to be their truest self, as she believes that is where the true work is done. She enjoys working with couples experiencing conflict or communication issues, children and their families, neurodivergence, depression and anxiety.
MA – Marriage and Family Therapy – Pacific Lutheran University
BA – Psychology – University of Washington
LMFTA
Rachael Kamwesa
Rachael has many years of experience working with pre-teens, teens, young adults, and is particularly interested in working with additional populations such as children, couples, and individual adults struggling with anxiety and depression. With no preferred therapeutic orientation, Rachael, instead, leads therapy with the philosophy that every single person is inherently valuable simply because they exist. She wants to help her clients understand their strengths and, in the process, heal from misconceptions they have about themselves. Rachael’s goal for her therapeutic space is that all clients know there will be no judgment by her, and that people of all walks of life are welcome into her space of healing.
MS – Marriage and Family Therapy – Seattle Pacific University
BA – Christian Ministries – Messiah University
LMFTA
Emma Braatz
Emma’s therapeutic approach is rooted in Person-Centered and Systemic Therapy. She believes in creating a safe space of acceptance where clients can fully experience themselves. Narrative, Solution-Focused and Bowen Family Systems Therapy inform Emma’s work with clients. Emma aims to understand a person’s story, and collaborate with them to fully embrace their strengths and empower them to bring forth the change they desire in their world. Through therapy, Emma collaborates with clients as they strengthen their connection to themselves and to the important people in their lives. She is inspired to reach teens and adolescents, and is also committed to work with individuals and couples.
MA – Couples and Family Therapy – Seattle University
BA – Psychology – University of Minnesota- Twin Cities
LMFTA
Johnathan “Taylor” Ordway
Taylor’s therapeutic approach integrates Humanistic-existential, Narrative, and Solution-focused interventions, believing that empathy is central to helping clients feel seen, understood, and empowered. Passionate about working with couples, individuals, and adolescents, Taylor helps clients explore their stories in ways that nurture self-understanding, resilience, and acceptance. Taylor strives to create a collaborative and compassionate space where clients can discover and value what makes them uniquely themselves, and live authentic and fulfilling lives.
MA – Couples and Family Therapy – Seattle University
BS – Business Administration – Colorado State University
LMFTA
Grace Westhof
Grace, a systemic family therapist, has experience working with neurodivergent (ADHD and ASD) youth. She has an interest in navigating life transitions, women’s issues, grief, generational trauma, neurodivergence, depression, and anxiety. Grace believes in providing a human-first, empowering, and accepting experience for her clients. She aims to work collaboratively to draw out the resilience that she believes already exists within her clients, as well as promote peace, healing, and growth. She enjoys working with individuals, children and adolescents, and couples. Her therapeutic orientation involves Solution Focused Brief Therapy, Narrative, Bowenian, and holistic approaches.
MA – Couples and Family Therapy – Seattle University
BA – Clinical Counseling Psychology – Seattle Pacific University
LMFTA
Hailey Nelsen
As a therapist, Hailey strives to create a space where clients feel accepted and free to bring their whole authentic self. Her approach is curious and collaborative, tailored to the clients unique needs and inner strengths, while honoring the experiences and stories woven within them. Working through a systemic and attachment-based lens, Hailey integrates somatic and experiential interventions to help clients get unstuck, strengthen their relationships, and live with greater intention. Hailey believes in fostering connection and sees her and her clients therapeutic relationship as the foundation for growth and healing.
MA – Couples and Family Therapy – Seattle University
BS – Psychology – Washington State University
MA Candidate
Ashley Jayroe
As a therapist, Ashley is passionate about supporting individuals, couples, and families through the emotional complexities of parenthood, relationships, and life transitions. She has a special interest in working with new parents and their little ones, helping them navigate stress, adjustment, and connection during early parenthood. Ashley also enjoys working with couples to strengthen communication, rebuild trust, and develop practical tools for managing conflict and change. Her therapeutic approach integrates Adlerian Therapy, the Gottman Method, Play Therapy, Parent Coaching, Expressive Arts Therapy (EAT), and perinatal wellness.
MA Candidate – Clinical Mental Health Counseling – Colorado Christian University
BS – Psychology – Western Washington University
MS Candidate
Danielle “DJ” Burger
DJ’s therapeutic orientation involves client centered, trauma informed, and collaborative approaches. Her work is influenced by systemic theories in particular drawing from Narrative, IFS, and Attachment-based theories. DJ believes that change is constant and people have the capacity to grow and change at any point in their lives. She looks forward to meeting with clients in a creative collaborative space to support their agency in directing change in their life.
MS Candidate – Marriage and Family Therapy – Seattle Pacific University
BA – Clinical Counseling Psychology – Seattle Pacific University
MS Candidate
Estelle Carlson
Estelle practices from a systemic lens and uses a collaborative, client-centered approach grounded in evidence-based systemic and experiential therapies. She believes clients are the experts of their own lives, and aims to create a supportive, non-judgmental space to explore patterns, strengthen communication, and deepen emotional understanding. Estelle brings curiosity and compassion to the therapy room, supporting clients in identifying strengths, working with underlying emotions, and building more secure, connected relationships—with themselves and with others.
MS Candidate – Marriage and Family Therapy – Seattle Pacific University
BA – English and Art – Gonzaga University
MEd Candidate
Jordan Ermer
Jordan’s therapeutic approach is based in a holistic perspective, believing that all aspects of our lives influence our mental health. She focuses on providing a non-judgmental and comfortable space where clients can explore these varied influences in order to increase self-awareness. Jordan utilizes a person-centered approach while integrating cognitive behavioral therapy to help clients build their sense of self and self-reliance. She sees the client as the expert of their own life and walks alongside them with curiosity and compassion. She is passionate about working with individuals and couples; focusing on depression, anxiety, communication issues, and destigmatizing therapy.
MEd Candidate – Counseling – University of Puget Sound
BS – Hospitality Management – Colorado State University
MA Candidate
Amber Peterson
Amber is a systemic therapist that uses a client-centered approach to help people identify their own strengths, work through underlying emotions, as well as build and strengthen attachments. She has an interest in navigating life transitions, women’s issues, generational trauma, depression, and anxiety. She has a background in working with children, adolescents, couples, and families of all ages and from a variety of socioeconomic and cultural backgrounds. Amber brings a wide variety of experience to ITSNW, including work in military respite services for disabled and terminally ill, somatic healing through her previous licensed massage therapy work, and lived experience as a military spouse and indigenous woman. She strives to create a collaborative and compassionate space where clients can use life’s challenges to gain perspective, broaden their connection, and better understand their innermost feelings.
MA Candidate – Marriage and Family Therapy – Pacific Lutheran University
BA – Psychology – University of Massachusetts
MS Candidate
Lily Kleven
Practicing from a systemic lens, Lily’s therapeutic approach is process driven and collaborative. She believes non-judgmental curiosity is the best way approach understanding patterns and behaviors and that although clients come to therapy when they feel stuck, they are the experts of their own lives. Lily seeks to empower clients by helping them to recognize their pre-existing strengths, as well as by helping to build on those strengths intentionally. She seeks to foster acceptance and understanding and to increase effective communication with oneself and others in order to facilitate deeper connection.
MS Candidate – Marriage and Family Therapy – Seattle Pacific University
BS – Biology – University of Washington
BA – Creative Writing – University of Washington
MA Candidate
Cassidy Beamer
As a systemic therapist, Cassidy gravitates towards narrative, solution-focused, and Bowenian approaches. She believes clients are the experts on their own lives and grounds her work in collaboration, humility, and attunement to clients’ unique needs and pace. Cassidy can help clients explore their stories and identify individual and relational strengths that can be drawn upon to support them in addressing their concerns and moving towards their preferred futures. Cassidy strives to cultivate an accepting, authentic, and creative space where clients feel safe enough to experience something different than they do in their day to day lives.
MA Candidate – Couples and Family Therapy – Seattle University
BA – Environmental Policy and Planning – University of Iowa
MA Candidate
Emma Johnson
Emmas philosophy is grounded in fostering an environment where clients are able to show up as their most authentic selves and receive collaborative support to enact meaningful change. She believes that clients are the experts of their own lives and, as the therapist, she aims to offer a safe space by leading with cultural humility, curiosity, and tailoring an approach that best aligns with clients’ needs, strengths, and stories. Emmas work is informed through a systemic lens, integrating Solution-Focused Interventions, Narrative Therapy, Bowenian, and experiential approaches, while keeping the clients unique experiences at the forefront of therapeutic exploration.
MA Candidate – Couples and Family Therapy – Seattle University
BS – Psychology – Washington State University
MA Candidate
Jaiden Grant
As a therapist, Jaiden strives to provide a safe and welcoming space for all clients by approaching therapy with a nonjudgmental, curious lens. She approaches therapy from a systemic and culturally sensitive standpoint, wherein she views each individual within the broader landscape of their life, exploring how various contexts and external influences shape their unique situation.
MA Candidate – Marriage and Family Therapy – Pacific Lutheran University
BA – Psychology – Gonzaga University
MA Candidate
Jeahna Aglugub
With curiosity and non-judgement at the forefront of her approach, and the belief that clients are the experts in their own lives, Jeahna hopes to foster a safe and welcoming environment for her clients in therapy. She utilizes a systemic lens, and tends to pull from Gottman, Narrative, and Emotion-Focused Therapy.
MA Candidate – Marriage and Family Therapy – Pacific Lutheran University
BA – Psychology – Saint Martin’s University
MA Candidate
Maddy Topaum
In therapy, Madison is drawn to Narrative and Solution-focused theories where she values creating a grounding and safe environment that centers client’s strengths and insight. Her goal is to work collaboratively with clients and support them in moving towards changes that feel meaningful to them. Madison shows up with curiosity, with her perspective rooted in a systemic lens.
MA – Couples and Family Therapy – Seattle University
BS – Psychology – Western Oregon University
MA Candidate
Sara Cheng
Sara is drawn to Narrative, Structural, Person-Centered, ACT, and Existential Therapy approaches in her work as a therapist. She believes that clients are the experts of their own lives and, as a therapist, that she can help to promote acceptance and growth to live their most authentic lives. Sara also believes in the power of having a strong therapeutic relationship with the client to enact change.
MA – Couples and Family Therapy – Seattle University
BA – Public Health – University of Hawai’i at Manoa
MS Candidate
Talia Leffel
Talia practices from a systemic lens and pulls from various modalities including solution focused and narrative therapies. In her work, she aims to remain curious while creating a reliable and safe space for her clients. Talia has a special interest in helping those who are working through chronic illness or autoimmune disorders.
MS Candidate – Marriage and Family Therapy – Seattle Pacific University
BA – Sociology and Anthropology – University of Puget Sound
LMFT – PRIDE PROGRAM MANAGER AND CASE CONSULTANT
Coleman Frostad
MA – Marriage and Family Therapy – Pacific Lutheran University
BA – Psychology – University of Washington
Emilee
Haley
Elizabeth
Jeannie
LMFT, LMHC, CMHS, Co-Founder of ITSNW – RETIRED
Jacqueline “Jacqui” Parkes
MA – Counseling Psychology, emphasis in Child and Family Therapy – St. Martin’s University
JD – University of San Diego
